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Barry Crimmins, a standup comedian who was at the center of Boston's comedy scene for years and whose political satire took a serious turn in the 1990s when he became an advocate for abused children after revealing that he had been raped as a child, died Feb. 28 in Syracuse, New York He was 64.

His wife, Helen Crimmins, announced his death on Twitter. Crimmins said last month that he had cancer. Late last year, he had organized fundraising efforts for his wife, who has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

During his heyday in the 1980s, Crimmins was considered a comedian's comedian, with his cerebral political satire and his well-honed mastery of the standup craft. He was broad and bearish...

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